18-20 November 2025
Toronto, Canada
Why You Should Attend ?
Build credibility and become a high impact, strategic partner to your clients.
We can help. Our course has been designed just for you by experts in HR and learning.
Our proprietary research has determined the strategic mindsets and skillsets necessary for you to advance both your career and your organization. We know the best practices of high-performing HR organizations and we’ve made it easy for you to incorporate them into your work.
Best of all? You’ll be able to work on a real business challenge during class and consult with our expert facilitators and your colleagues.
Are you ready to work as a strategic, high impact partner to your business and help make work better for people? Would you like to move from being reactive to proactive? To increase your credibility through your business and financial acumen? To enhance collaboration with your clients and CoEs? To work as a trusted advisor?
During our intensive 3-day certification program, you will be immersed in a highly interactive, hands-on learning experience and equipped with processes and tools necessary to put ideas into action.
After completing the sHRBP certification program, you will be able to:
PREPARE
Adopting a strategic mindset
Understanding the Prepare/Partner/Perform framework
Adopting a strategic mindset and skill set
Assessing yourself on the strategic continuum
Working through a strategic lens
Analyzing business data to create insights and guide decisions
Understanding the importance of business data to HR
Asking critical questions
Identifying internal and external business factors
Measuring business impact with business metrics
Aligning overall talent strategy to business priorities and objectives
Understanding HR’s pivotal position
Aligning talent strategy to business strategy
Increasing your relevance to business
Describing types of business strategies
Varying talent strategies according to business strategies
Documenting priorities and measurements
Communicating with the Talent Measurement Value Approach
Aligning HR interventions with talent and business strategies
PARTNER
Consulting with clients to determine issues and root causes
Reviewing a day in the life of an HRBP
Understanding consulting types: reactive vs. proactive
Using a consulting model
Creating a questioning strategy
Determining root cause
Collecting data and preparing insights
Collaborating with partners
Sharing findings with clients
Developing recommendations
Working with CoEs
Communicating progress to gain champions and influence positive change
Creating change through people
HCI’s Change Management Model
Understanding resistance to change
Making the case for change
Communicating about change
Creating solutions that drive impact and change
Understanding your role as an HRBP
Developing HR interventions
Identifying the impact of talent optimization on business
Using the appropriate talent management solutions holistically
Aligning business issues, talent issues, and solutions
PERFORM
Solving business issues by implementing solutions
Recognizing the need for project management
Implementing solutions
Using different project management (agile vs. waterfall)
Implementing a solution
Using project management process and tools:
• Initiation
• Project scope
• Project charter
• Planning
• RASCI Model
• Execution
• Closing
Addressing project management challenges
Sustaining solutions by evaluating impact and iterating so they can be used elsewhere in the organization
Determining measurement intervals
Using leading indicators to measure progress
Putting reporting in place
Creating insight from data
Using the analytics value approach
Visualizing data
Use storytelling to drive key points
Scaling solutions model
Action Planning
Determining what you can do immediately, in 30 days, in 6 months, and in a year
This program can also be delivered as a tailored in-house training for your organization. We adapt the content to your industry, objectives, and level of maturity, focusing on real challenges your teams face and the decisions they need to make. In-house formats allow your people to align on a shared approach, work through relevant scenarios, and build skills they can apply immediately.
If you’re exploring an in-house option, tell us a bit about your team, priorities, and timing, and we’ll recommend the right format.
Contact us about in-house training
